The Gender of Big Data

The presence of women in positions of responsibility inside Big Data companies is quite far of parity: while approximately 5o% of world population are women, only 7% of CEOs of Top 100 Big Data Companies are. Like it or not, technology seems to be a guy thing.

To do this experiment, I did some webscraping to download the list of big data companies from here. I also used a very interesting package called genderizeR, which makes gender prediction based on first names (more info here).